The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-04-21
BILL NYE.
He Makes Trial of His Hand as Local.
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AsHEvILLE, N. @.
The following constitutes the items of great
interest occurring on the east side among the
colored people of Blue Ruin:
Plum Beasley's house caught on fire last
Tuesday night. He reckons il was caused by
defective fue, for the fire caught in the
north wing. This is one of Plum's bon mots,
however He tries to make light of it, but
the wood he has been using all winter was
white birch, and when he got big dose of
hickory at the same place last week it was so
dark that he didn't notice the difference and
before he knew it he had bigger fire than he
had allowed. In the midst of q pleasant flow
Of conversation gas collected in the wood and
caused an explosion, which threw passed. of
live Goals on the bed. The house was soon a
solid mass of flame. Mr.. Beasley is still short
two children.
Mr.. Granulation Hicks, of Boston, Mass,
who has won deserved distinction in advanc-
Ing the interests of Sir George Pullman, of
Chicago, is here visiting his parents, who re-
side on Upper Hominy. We are glad to see
Mr.. Hicks, and hope he may live long to visit
Blue Ruin and propitiate up and down our
streets.
Miss Roseola Cardiman has just been the
recipient of beautiful pair of chaste ear
hobs from her brother, who is night watch
man in a jewelry store run by man named
Tiffany in New York. Roseola claims that
Tiffany makes right smart of her brother,
and sets heap by him.
| Whooping cough and horse distemper are
again making fearful havoc among the better
classes at the foot of Pizen Ivy avenue
We are panied to learn that the free read
ing room, established over Amalgamation
Browns store, has beer closed up by the po-
lice. Blue Ruin has clamored for q free tenn
perance reading room and brain retort Tor
ten wears, and now ruction between two of
DUR best known citizens, over the relative
merits of natural pair and doctored flush,
has called down til, vengeance OF the author
tiles and shut up What was credit to the
place and a quiet resort, where young men
could come night after night and kind Of
romplicate themselves at. There are two or
three men in this place that will bully or bust
everything they can get into, and they have
perforated more outrages on Blue Ruin than
we are entitled to put up with.
There was a successful doings at the creek
last Sabbath, during which baptism was ad-
ministered to four grown people and dude
from Sandy Mush. The pastor thinks 1t Will
take first rate though it sstill too soon TO TELL
Surrender Adams got letter last Friday
from his son Gladstone who filed on home
stead near Porcupine, D. T., two years ago.
He says they have had another of those I'M
precedented winters there for which Dakota
| is SO Justly celebrated. He thinks this one
has been even more SO than any of the others.
He wishes he was back here at Blue Ruin,
where man can go out doors for half an
hour without getting ostracised by the ele'
ments. He says they brag good deal on
their ozone there, but he allows that it can be
overdone He states that when the ozone IL
Dakota is feeling pretty well and humping
itself and curling up sheet iron roofs and
blowing trains off the track a man has to tic
a clothesline to himself, with the outer enc
fastened to the door knob, before it is safe tc
visit his own hen house. He says that his
nearest neighbor is seventeen miles away, and
a man might as well buy his own chickens as
to fool his money away on seventeen miles Of
clothesline.
1t is a first. rate letter, and the old man
wonders who Gladstone got to write it fol
him.
The valuable ecru dog of our distinguished
townsman, Mr.. Piedmont Babbitt, was Sc
| flOuSly impaired ldSU DdOh udJ ihOa hih6 W
an east bound freight.
He will not wrinkle up his nose at another
freight train.
George Wellington, of Hickory was IL
town the front end of the week. He has &C
copied position in the livery, feed and salt
stable at Sandy Mush Call again, George
Gabriel Brant met with sad mishap few
days since while crossing the French Broat
river, by which he lost his leg.
Any one who may find extra leg below
where the accident occurred will confer I
favor on Mr. Brant by returning same to No
061% Pneumonia street. II may be readily
identified by any one, as it is made OF an ole
pickhandle and weighs four pounds.
j. Quincy Burns has written war article
! for The Century Magazine, regarding bat
tie where he was at In this article he aim
| to describe the sensations of a man who il
ignorant of physical fear and yet yearns tx
have the matter submitted to arbitration. Ill
gives a thorough expose of his efforts in try
{ | ing to find a suitable board of arbitration a
soon as he saw that the enemy felt hostile ant
| eager for the fray.
The forthcoming number of The Century
| will be eagerly snapped up by Mr. Burns
friends who are familiar with his pleasing
and graphic style of writing. He describes
with wonderful power the sense of utter ex
haustion which came over him and the feel
ing of bitter disappointment when he realized
, that he was too far away to participate in the
battle and too fatigued to make further
search for suitable arbitrators.-Bill Nye in
Boston Globe.